Until very recently, the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless was our favourite wireless gaming headset, right up until the magnificent Razer BlackShark V3 ate its lunch. It hasn’t taken HyperX long to strike back, however, with the newly-announced HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless 2—complete with a fancy RGB-lit base station with a selection of media controls. HyperX…
Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: HP) Image 2 of 2 The 45L on the left and the Max 45L on the right (Image credit: HP) One thing I’ve noticed recently is that, with the price of RTX 5090 cards being so ludicrously high, even infamously overpriced gaming brands like Alienware have relatively reasonable prebuilts….
The year is 2005 and I’m an impressionable 12 year old looking for my next gaming fix on our family PC. I slot in one of our many PC Gamer demo discs for a game called Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and boom (quite literally), the opening cutscene hits. I can tell you the exact…
Samsung has announced what it claims is the world’s first 500 Hz OLED monitor. Predictably, it’s a 27-inch 1440p model that will likely grab the attention of esports fans. But it’s actually Samsung’s new 40-inch 5K2K gaming monitor that’s got me twitching. First up, let’s cover off the new Samsung Odyssey OLED G6. Just as…
We’re just a month out from the release of Borderlands 4, and Gearbox CEO/magician Randy Pitchford is hitting the media circuit to tell everyone why you should be very excited for the 30 billion guns it apparently contains. But it’s not all about the heaters. Gearbox has promised that—after the less-than-stellar narrative that propped up…
‘Cubix’ launched earlier this month as part of YRGB 2025. As you may or may not already know, last week saw the start of YRGB 2025, a retro game development competition for the ZX Spectrum computer scheduled to last between August 7th to August 20th. As a result, we’ve recently seen a large increase in…
Plus a neat charity collaboration. Rue Valley, a narrative RPG heavily inspired by Disco Elysium, has been confirmed for the Switch in addition to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. No release date has been set at the time of writing, but we’re keeping a close eye on this one. It looks pretty awesome; definitely…
Category: Games Troublemakers Unite! Smugglers Tide comes to Sea of Thieves with Season 17 Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published August 14, 2025 Related Stories for “Troublemakers Unite! Smugglers Tide comes to Sea of Thieves with Season 17” Category: Games Free Play Days – Star Overdrive, The Catch: Carp & Coarse Fishing and Survival: Fountain…
The Xbox 360 was the first console I bought after becoming a PC gamer a few years prior, and oh, what a machine that was. I still remember sitting on my bed and staring in awe at the next-gen graphics in front of me as I sawed through Locust Horde scum in Gears of War….
Both phases of the Battlefield 6 open beta have given us heaps of in-game challenges to complete to earn exclusive rewards once the game fully launches in October. However, there’s actually another event going on that no one seems to know about: Destruction Receipts. Given it’s not featured in the in-game menus, I’m not too…